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Mark Bauer is one of the UK’s leading landscape photographers. Having first become interested in photography while living abroad in the early 1990’s, he is now renowned for his evocative images of his home county of Dorset, and other locations throughout the south west of England.

He completed a City and Guilds course in photography at the Arts Institute in Bournemouth in 1994, and since then his images have appeared in numerous publications throughout the world. He is a regular contributor to the UK photographic press, in particular Amateur Photographer, Landscape Photography Magazine, and Digital Photographer. He shoots stock images for various agencies, including the fine-art image library Trevillion Images. He is the author of two coffee table books - ‘Romantic Dorset’ and ‘Perfect Wiltshire’ and co-author (with Ross Hoddinott) of two photography technique books, 'The Landscape Photography Workshop' and 'The Art of Landscape Photography'. Mark's work has been Commended and Highly Commended in various major competitions, including The International Landscape Photographer of the Year, the Landscape Photographer of the Year and the International Garden Photographer of the Year. In 2011 he was a category winner in the Outdoor Photographer of the Year competition.

Prints are for sale through local galleries (see links) as well as directly from this website. Mark exhibits his work regularly and details are posted on the News page.